"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"

"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation"

"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs"

"I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it"

"I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry"

"I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene"

"Money is a kind of poetry"

"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"

"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince"

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling"

"Personality is everything in art and poetry"